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Banded or Moustache Parrakeet (Palceomis fasciata). 

 The beak of the male is broader and more powerful than that of 

 the female, of which Count Salvador! writes: "Differs in having 

 the head tinged with blue, and the vinaceous red of the breast pro 

 duced up the sides of the neck between the lilac-blue of the head 

 and the emerald green of the neck; bill black, with the base of the 

 lower mandible orange-brown" (Catalogue of Birds r vol. xx. p 466) 

 Oddly enough one of the specimens from the Hume series in the 

 Museum which m size, colouring, and everything else would seem 

 to be a female, shows a considerable amount of red on the beak Is 

 this perhaps, the first stage in the assumption of male plumage by 

 an ola female s & J 



Blyth's Nicobar Parrakeet (Palceomis caniceps). 

 Extremely rare as a captive bird. The female may be distin- 

 guished, as Count Salvador! tells us, by "the grey colour of the 

 pileuni and nape (being) tinged with bluish; the bill wholly black" 

 (Catalogue of Birds, vol. xx. p. 470). 



Lucian Parrakeet (Palceomis modesta). 

 The male is larger than the female; the beak slightly longer 

 more arched, not so full towards the terminal hook. *<The female 

 has the top of the head greenish-brown; the stripes, which are 

 black m the male are dark bluish-green, almost black, in the 

 female; cheeks and ear-coverts reddish, the latter edged behind 

 with a bluish band » (Seth-Smith, Parrakeets, p. 1 1 7). & 



Nicobar Parrakeet (Palceomis nicobarica). 

 The male is larger than the female; his beak is a little longer 

 and generally more powerful.. "The female has both mandibles 

 blackish, and the red colour of the cheeks duller" (Parrakeets, 



Although probable, it is not certain that the Andaman Parrakeet 

 nas been imported, so I need not consider it here. 



Long-tailed Parrakeet (Palceomis longicauda). 

 In the males the beak is broader at base and more triangular 

 when viewed from above than in the females ; the terminal hook is 

 also longer. In the female the entire beak is horny brown, and the 

 mandibular stripes are dark green instead of black. 



Barraband's Parrakeet (Polytelis barrabandi) 

 The male is scarcely larger than the female ; but his beak is more 

 arched, broader, and deeper, with shorter terminal hook "The 

 female is much duller green; the throat and upper breast "greyish- 

 rose ; thighs scarlet; inner webs of tail-feathers rose-pink " (Seth- 

 Smith, Parrakeets, p. 122). l { 



